désinfecte
\de.zɛ̃.fɛkt\
The verdict
“désinfecte” is uncommon French (frequency #80,152 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,152
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de désinfecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desinfecte · désinfecte · French
désinfecte · rank #80,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,152
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dérégler
Nearest frequency peer: dérégler (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “désinfecte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dénaturation
dénaturation
19,853 corpus weight
- dépénaliser
dépénaliser
19,852 corpus weight
- dérégler
dérégler
19,851 corpus weight
- désinfecte
désinfecte
19,849 corpus weight
- détrempe
détrempe
19,847 corpus weight
- détrempée
détrempée
19,846 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “désinfecte” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désinfecte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɛ̃.fɛkt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “désinfecte” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
désinfecte is uncommon French at frequency #80,152 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɛ̃.fɛkt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
désinfecte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is désinfecte, spelled D-É-S-I-N-F-E-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de désinfecter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de désinfecter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de désinfecter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de désinfecter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de désinfecter.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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